John D. Caputo, American Continental philosopher. Born 1940, received his B.A. in 1962 from LaSalle University, his M.A. in 1964 from Villanova University and his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1968 from Bryn Mawr College. His dissertation was entitled "The Development of the Concept of Grund in Heidegger's Thought."

Caputo is best known for his work on the borderlines between deconstruction as articulated by Jacques Derrida and religious theory.

Bibliography

• Against Ethics - Contributions to a Poetics of Obligation with Constant Reference to Deconstruction (1993)
• Demythologizing Heidegger (1993)
• The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida (1997)
• On Religion (2001)
• The Religious (2001)